Satoshi Kanazawa Is a Bad Scientist
… but there’s probably a home for him waiting at VDARE and other so called ‘Scientific racialist’ rags. Here Kanazawa’s incendiary pseudo science claim that black women are less attractive is examined and debunked. Of course you could more easily and less scientifically debunk it by googling (Warning: if you don’t have safe search on could be NSFW)
Over the past week, a handful of Kanazawa’s fellow bloggers at Psychology Today have posted insightful and at times scientifically-grounded critiques of his research question and methodology. Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman has even done an independent statistical analysis of the data set Kanazawa uses to “prove” his theory, beating me to publication by a couple of days but coming to the same conclusions I have derived from my own independent analysis.
Independent evaluation of an article’s data analysis is a critical step in deconstructing scientific inquiry, and one the mainstream media rarely undertakes. As the founder of a science journalism nonprofit – and therefore an aspiring entrant into the mainstream media ranks – I am alarmed by this.
